#spring

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ↗

— Joan Didion

#life #own #responsibility #self-respect #source

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see. ↗

— Alan Vega

#i #sculptures #see #showing #some

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#new #new year #springs #tiger #us

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail. ↗

— Charles Edison

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The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball. ↗

— Jim Evans

#best #cities #considered #florida #great

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

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